Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:22:14 +0000 From: Lorenzo Salvadore <phascolarctos@protonmail.ch> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New categories: both virtual and non virtual Message-ID: <u3OunnIjTR_mR4fKLukmcGORx-sNJdvWJ5gnDqgRdCDx4aePbh_zAa9Wi2lBFaImSPKrAuwEtDHK7vROnm6URk6Kk7_LGMo8xbUHinjgIto=@protonmail.ch> In-Reply-To: <20220630143445.5mqnmr5zbytestcx@aniel.nours.eu> References: <20220630143445.5mqnmr5zbytestcx@aniel.nours.eu>
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------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 16:34, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org= > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > with pkg 1.18, it is easier to add new catagories which and reduce the im= pact > in people as we can query all the categories virtual or not. > > Now that this is done, I would like to add the following new categories. = Not > that I want to address the current isssue here which is the desktop world= on > FreeBSD is not anymore a x11 only world, and the categories do not reflec= t > that reality anymore. > > Virtual: > - wayland > > Non Virtual: > - ui-toolkits (all UI toolkits should be moved here) > - desktop (all wayland compositors, all apps desktop oriented which does = not > fit in any other catagories). > - desktop-libs (all libraries not ui-toolkit which are necessary for the > desktops) > - fonts (fonts and related libraries) > > > For all the x11 related ports which will be moved there will they will ke= ep > a x11* virtual category to it is still queryable that way if it makes sen= ce > > For example if we move libinput from x11/libinput to desktop/libinput the= n the > CATEGORIES=3D x11 will become CATEGORIES=3D desktop-libs x11 > > meaning: > pkg info desktop-libs/libinput will match the same package as x11/libinpu= t Excellent idea! I agree that our categories need improvements in the deskto= p world. Thanks for your work with pkg 1.18. Lorenzo Salvadore
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